Services offered 2012/13 - Sunderland Learning Hub

EYFS. All EYFS providers must send their local authority the 13 EYFS Profile summary scoresfor each child who will be five years old on or before Friday 31 August 2012, together withcontextual data for each child, unless:• an exemption or modification from all or part of the EYFS assessment arrangements has beengranted for the setting by the Secretary of State; or• the child is continuing in EYFS provision beyond the year in which they turn five.See “ 2012 Assessment and Reporting Arrangements – Early Years Foundation Stage ” fromthe Standards and Testing AgencyMonitoring of Yr 1 Phonics Screening Check administration - no charge for this serviceWhere it is a requirement of their funding agreement, Academies (including Free Schools) mustensure they comply with the Key Stage 1 National Curriculum assessment arrangements.Phonics screening check arrangements are only applicable to those Academies (or FreeSchools) that provide education to children at this stage of learning. Academies (and FreeSchools) must submit their results to their local authority or other accredited agency. Exact dateswill be provided by local authorities and other accredited agencies. The local authority or otheraccredited body submits results to the DfE via COLLECT, which is the system used for datasubmission for teacher assessment at the end of Key Stage 1.Local authorities and other accredited agencies should ensure that Academies (including FreeSchools):• are aware of the need to store phonics screening check materials securely;• are offered support on all aspects of the phonics screening check;• are provided with instructions outlining how they must submit their data; and• have an electronic system to submit phonics screening check data.See “ 2012 Assessment and Reporting Arrangements – Yr 1 Phonics Screening Check ” fromthe Standards and Testing AgencyModeration of KS1 SATs teacher assessment judgements – no charge for this serviceAcademies (including Free Schools) are required to comply with the Key Stage 1 assessmentarrangements in relation to reporting, monitoring and moderation as set out in their fundingagreement.The DfE will have asked all Academies (including Free Schools) to record their preference formonitoring of their assessment arrangements and they should submit their Key Stage 1assessments to the appropriate body. STA will send a list of accredited agencies and localauthorities offering a moderation and results processing service to all Academies (including FreeSchools) with children in Key Stage 1. Academies (including Free Schools) can expect to pay forthis service.Where the funding agreement for an Academy or Free School provides that it will submit tomonitoring and moderation of its assessment arrangements as prescribed by the Secretary ofState, the requirements prescribed are the monitoring and moderation arrangements that applyto maintained schools.See “ 2012 Assessment and Reporting Arrangements – Key Stage 1 ” from the Standards andTesting Agency89